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📅 Updated 21 October 2025, 17:20 BST   🟡 Developing incident: AWS continues gradual recovery across its US-EAST-1 region following widespread DNS degradation affecting DynamoDB, EC2, and Lambda. The AWS Outage 2025: What Actually Happened At 12:11 AM PDT  on 20 October 2025, Amazon Web Services confirmed an “operational issue” in its US-EAST-1 (Northern Virginia)  region. The root cause was a DNS resolution failure  within DynamoDB , cascading to services such as EC2, Lambd

Compliance as a Revenue Enabler, Not Just Risk Reduction Almost every founder we met started the conversation with a similar anxiety: “How quickly can we get ISO 27001 or SOC 2? We’re losing deals.” On the surface, this sounded like a risk problem. In reality, it was a revenue one. Their boards and CROs were not asking for a compliance certificate to look good on the wall – they needed it because enterprise customers were holding back contracts without it. This matches what E

Why traditional compliance tools are broken for fast-moving engineering teams — and how real-time systems are redefining the GRC game for startups. Introduction: The Illusion of Control Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) has long been a checkbox exercise in many startups — something to be done before a funding round, during enterprise procurement, or when chasing an ISO or SOC 2 certificate. But here's the truth: most early-stage GRC implementations are dead on arrival . T

The 2025 cyber attacks on Marks & Spencer, Co-op, and Harrods weren't just IT incidents—they were pivotal moments that reshaped UK retail cybersecurity. This analysis reveals the common patterns behind these attacks and outlines the foundational security measures every retailer must implement now to build resilience in an increasingly hostile threat landscape.